Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Riding after heavy manual labor
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 09:14:34 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <v2kr3q$nc4p$2@dont-email.me>
References: <Jl51O.14544$N2J4.4957@fx43.iad> <v22tus$112b0$1@dont-email.me>
 <Sx91O.142$JW17.90@fx12.iad> <v23r8c$1b4fo$1@dont-email.me>
 <GCl1O.5$XFC9.1@fx06.ams4> <afp1O.2$iJZe.1@fx44.iad>
 <mlgc4j59jett3eptn4918o63ccs1iti9c9@4ax.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 15:14:35 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8cc3ec0e30d8f944314d63ddeff4f206";
	logging-data="766105"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/w8k3C+H4PKXA4aKZxHBiUWE7X0c+pBL0="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:gdIKMS7sSxmnFc1ec3e1OK1HcxU=
In-Reply-To: <mlgc4j59jett3eptn4918o63ccs1iti9c9@4ax.com>
Content-Language: en-US
Bytes: 2741

On 5/16/2024 2:18 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> I don't believe that you own a motorized lawn mower.  Looking at your
> house using Google Earth Pro, your front yard is mostly driveway and
> isn't large enough to require a motorized lawn mower.  Most of your
> back yard is a concrete patio.  Using the measuring tool on Google
> Earth Pro, the front lawn is 32 x 17ft and the back is 16 x 25ft.  You
> would do better with a push mower and a rake.  If that takes up too
> much area in your garage, a maybe a hedge trimmer:
> "Can you Cut Grass with a Hedge trimmer?"
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcbl7P9HYA>

For a lawn that size, and for someone of tommy's professed means, hiring 
a landscape company would solve the problem, probably pretty cheap too, 
and look alot better than an 80 year old went at it with a weed whacker.

> Lawn mower bags usually have a steel wire frame to prevent the bag
> from collapsing and to raise it off the ground.  The blade area is
> also protected close to the ground.  There is no way that a bag, with
> a wire frame, will get "sucked" into the blades" unless you remove the
> bag and frame and run over it with the mower.  A lawn mower does not
> have a vacuum cleaner feature that sucks things into the blade area.
> Instead, the blades form a propeller and blow lawn clippings OUT of
> the blade area.  

That's kind of what I was thinking - how does the bag get sucked _in_ to 
the blades? I've been mowing lawns since I was about ten, never saw that 
happen.